Abstract
Daniel G. was admitted to 999 Queen Street West Asylum in Toronto on the same day as Andrew T: January 3, 1928. Both would be deported back to their countries of origin that same year after being incarcerated on their way to expulsion as “mentally defective” immigrants. This chapter seeks to understand what happened to them at a time when disabled people subject to deportation had no real say in their own fate. To provide context to their stories and the legalistic snare in which they were entrapped, the social and legal background to their status in Canadian society, or more accurately, their “spoiled” status in Canadian society, are analyzed (Goffman 1963; 1986).
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Reaume, G. (2014). Eugenics Incarceration and Expulsion: Daniel G. and Andrew T.’s Deportation from 1928 Toronto, Canada. In: Ben-Moshe, L., Chapman, C., Carey, A.C. (eds) Disability Incarcerated. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388476_4
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